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Originally Posted by Sarcoth

Actually, I could set up an if statement that only shows the data for the particular guild/game they have placed in their profile field. But, since you can already assign which usergroups can view the roster, is it really neccesary to block one usergroup from viewing the other roster? IMO, if you are giving a usergroup permission to view one roster, you may as well give them permission to view them all. Otherwise, they may as well create another site for their guild.

I'm not entirely sure I've correctly understood what you're saying, but I'll just clarify what I mean anyhow;

Say you have two clans on your forum, Clan A, and Clan B. You want to give those clans access to different private forums, "Clan A's Forum" - viewable only to Clan A members, and "Clan B's Forum" - viewable only to Clan B members. You also want the leaders of each clan to have extra permissions, such as increased PMs, max upload sizes etc. In addition to this, each clan has a different "tag", or user name mark-up. To do this you set up four user groups, Clan A Leaders, Clan A Members, Clan B Leaders, Clan B Members.

Now, as far as I'm aware, the only way to achieve such a result is by using different user groups. If that is correct, then most multi-clan/guild forums will require, and already have, pre-defined user groups they want to appear on the roster(s), but they won't be utilised if permissions are done via a profile field. To get it to work via a profile field, an admin would also have to set up a profile field for the options of all clan/guilds and ranks and manually (if profile field is private) set all users to their correct clan/rank?

Like I said, I'm not sure that's what your suggesting, but if it is then that's my concern with profile fields.